30 July 2005 – 10:46 pm +0800
I’ve been expecting assassination attempts on President Bush for some time, given the general climate on the left side of the spectrum.
So, while I’m not surprised that one attempt was made, I am surprised that it’s received so little coverage. It happened in may, and you would think that the media would report it, [...]
29 July 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
But why do I need to point this out? Any serious-minded person who’s studied the issue knows that Saddam’s fascist Iraq was a major terrorist-sponsoring nation. They also know that there were and are multiple states besides Iraq that are guilty of same.
— Dean Esmay, 29 July 2005
29 July 2005 – 7:49 pm +0800
Same image, different takes.
Jeff Goldstein turns it into a contest to supply instant nuance.
Scott Chaffin wants us all to remember something very important.
Bravo to both.
29 July 2005 – 7:15 pm +0800
Condoleezza Rice (þFrank Martin):
[...] Ms Rice said the US was working with advocates of democratic change on the island. “We are working to deny resources to the Castro regime to break its blockade on information and to broadcast the truth about its deplorable treatment of the Cuban people,” she said.
She said the aim of the [...]
29 July 2005 – 7:00 pm +0800
What an age we live in!
While there are now more than 500 Arabic and Farsi news outlets reporting stories from and about the Middle East, there is currently no affordable means for English speakers to gain access to much of this content. As a result, the overwhelming majority of English speaking businesspersons, students, journalists and [...]
29 July 2005 – 5:32 pm +0800
This is not a review, but just some remarks in reaction to it.
This was the slowest I’ve ever read a Potter novel. I took a week and savored each little bit of it, laughing out loud often, moping occasionally. There’s only one more new Potter after this (assuming Rowling doesn’t get hit by [...]
28 July 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
TOM
Rug? Bit of a shakedown artist. Not above the
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28 July 2005 – 2:13 pm +0800
Her business cards should read “Sadie Solo — Super Genius“.
27 July 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
The next time you hear bragging about “the reality-based community,” listen closely for bitter and sardonic laughter. Because it will belong to me.
— Pejman Yousefzadeh, 26 July 2005
27 July 2005 – 3:51 pm +0800
Darth Vader pitches a movie idea. The Force is not with him.
Magic Johnson takes on the Fantastic Four. This is the first thing related to the movie that actually makes me like it a bit.
A flipping hilarious “got milk?” commercial. Is this really running on US TV? Amazing that the shrieking [...]
27 July 2005 – 10:11 am +0800
Howard Dean’s interior monologue: “Ah, I’ll just make up anything that leaps to mind. Nobody’s going to fact-check it anyway — I’m a Democrat, fercrissake!” (þJeff Goldstein)
Flickr has some interesting synonyms for “moron”. I wouldn’t blame them, though, it’s probably a function of having a bunch of BDS-suffering users.
Writer Ed Gorman [...]
26 July 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
“Stein’s words, ‘Romantic!—Romantic!’ seem to ring over those distances that will never give him up now to a world indifferent to his failing and his virtues, and to that ardent and clinging affection that refuses him the dole of tears in the bewilderment of a great grief and of eternal separation. From the moment [...]
26 July 2005 – 11:54 pm +0800
Jim Phelps is keeping it real while thumping the LA Times
David Lynch has a nutty idea for World Peace through Transcendental Meditation. David Lynch with nutty ideas? Who would’ve thought?
Ready to laugh your arse off? Remember that granola-muncher who loved the wild bears so much that he “routinely eased up close to [...]
25 July 2005 – 11:59 pm +0800
Of all the legacies of the Raj, none is more important than the English language and the modern school system. That is, if you leave out cricket!
— Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
25 July 2005 – 6:11 pm +0800
And now we know that it’s genetic.
Poor kitties.